No one with real integrity tries to sell their integrity to you. People with real integrity hardly notice they have it.
My brother and sister have led extraordinary lives, but I wasn't there, and I can't tell you that part. I've stuck here to the part I can tell, the part that's mine, and still everything I've said is...
Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Sam...
I’m red as a berry, shiny from the pickling of the womb, and squinting at the world through suspicious, slitted eyes.
It was one of her delightful qualities; she wept with those who wept.
Instead I watched our mother obsessively for signs of breakage.
I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.
Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.
Contrary to our metaphors, humans are much more imitative than the other apes. For example: if chimps watch a demonstration on how to get food out of a puzzle box, they, in their turn, skip any unnece...
You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings? Oh my Lord, yes. Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. I guess I woul...
Without our listening, all the stories are the same story.
When we'd gone to Disneyland, the tree house had been my favorite thing in the whole park. If only I'd had no parents watching my every move, if only I'd been a happy, carefree orphan, I'd have hidden...
We should get you Linux, too. Nobody uses Windows anymore.
There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science
There was no point in telling my father. He'd never let me quit after only one day. He couldn't help me and he'd make some terrible blunder if he tried. Parents are too innocent for the Boschian lands...
There are moments when history and memory seem like a mist, as if what really happened matters less than what should have happened.
The white culture rewarded cruelty with honor and friendship.
The secret to a good life, he told me once, is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if all you're doing is taking out the garbage, you do that with excellence.
Please assume that I am talking continuously in all the scenes that follow until I tell you that I’m not.
No more politics, Grandma Donna had said as a permanent new rule, since we wouldn't agree to disagree and all of us had access to cutlery.